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Charlotte's Agricultural Inheritance Preserved 0 0 Charlotte’s Agricultural Inheritance Preserved A new park with lake and mountain views and walking trails and a plan to keep land in farming to the east ($Route Seven Travelers on Route 7 in Charlotte marvel at the view of Vermont’s moun- tains, the lake and the Adirondacks. One of them had the inspiration and the capacity to insure that these vistas would be preserved for future generations. Now 250 acres lying to the west of the highway over to Greenbush Road are designated “The Charlotte Park and Wildlife Refuge.” To the east of the highway, 583 acres are preserved with plans to keep them in agricultural use. These two parcels were assembled by the Demeter Fund Charlotte Project working with the town Selectboard and several State of Vermont agencies. In July of 1999, the town received the park land as a gift along with entitlements to protected farm acreage. In 1995, in a speech to townspeople gathered in front of the new Town Hall, Steven C. Rockefeller reflected on the Charlotte project which he initi- ated. During the I970 k I occasionally drove back and forth between Middlehuty and Burlington. I was immediately struck by the grandeur and the beau@ of the vistas to the east and to the west from the Charlotte hills. I knew the area should be protected and became concerned as I watchcd development spvad south from Shelburne. When I shared these concerns with Pat Noonan and Douglas Home from the Conservation Fund, the Charlotte yrojcct began to move from a dreurn to action. with Doug Horne doing the negotiating with land ownera, we began to acquire the property that is now thc Demeter Fund. The objectives are as beautiful as the property: to provide public access for walking, jogging, horse riding, cross country skiing, picnicking, birding, nature study and the enjoyment of the landscape. Ordinances state that plants and trees are to be left untouched and they also prohibit pets, fires, alcohollc beverages, overnight stays, camping. There is an experimental nature to all this as the Selectboard adjusts to this new responsibility under a management plan. The acreage east of Route 7 has land that will be kept in farming. The name “Demeter” refers to the Greek goddess who was first worshipped as mother Earth. She was later identified with the fertdity of agricultural fields. m Working with these kinds of inspired goals, there are many other conser- vation efforts in Town. Back in 1972, an effort begun by one resident and m quickly supported by others raised money locally to buy 25 acres at the top of the hill to the west of Route 7. Near the lake, just west of South Greenbush II) 0 1999 Champiain Valley Telecom 2 Selectboard chair Marty lllick accepts the deed for the new Charlotte Park and Wildlife Refuge from Steven C. Rockefeller. July 10,1999. m Road the Nature Conservancy owns 25 acres commonly known as “Williams Woods.” The Charlotte Land Trust is a private, non-profit land conservation organization. The trustees, all local residents, use technical expertise and their financial resources to purchase or accept as a gift the development rights and I) easements on private land. Their statement: “to ensure that the lands are used and maintained in conformance with established conservation guidelines - m forever.” 0 The legal complexities are many but appear solvable. Now, with the work m completed on this newest project, more than 2,200 acres in Charlotte are protected from development in various ways. Mr. Rockefeller closed his 1995 0 speech to Town residents with wide-ranging thoughts on environmental issues: m I see this new ecological awareness as part oj the deeper meaning of the mystely and beaup we all enjoy when on thut Iundscapt: To realize and embody these ideas and values in our lives ana‘ institutions is one ofthe great challenges e of this moment in history and the next century. A town clerk with a dedicated interest in local history wrote loving descriptions of the town ’s earliest years Charlotte had its own chronicler, William Wallace Higbee (I 842 - 1911). He caught the rural, unspoiled nature of things much of which has not changed thanks to a series of near miracles in land use. His newspaper columns, starting in 1874 and covering the next thirty years, are in print, once again, in a hard 0 1999 Champlain Valley Telecorn 3 -~ cover book, Around the Mountains, where 300 illustrations capture nineteenth century life to its fullest. He stands alone as a contemporary recorder of those formative years providing the only window readily open to the public. The book, prepared and published by the Charlotte Historical Society. had its coming out party on March 4, 1991, the date of Vermont’s Bicentennial. 0 The projected celebrations for a big bang on the 2000th, are an odd m contrast to the end of the nineteenth century which had almost no mention in the Burlington Free Prcss. Those hundred years back, Charlotte had neither a newspaper nor electricity nor paved roads. The population count was 1,200, m many of them dairy farmers and orchard groners. Communications were done in old-fashioned ways; only a fortunate few had Bell telephones. Those dusty, yellowed newspaper columns in the Vergennes Enterprise and Vermonter plus a few in The Burlington Free Press recorded the first 140 years of Charlotte history. Although there are great changes in the townscape, primarily coming from residential construction and the town’s roads and highways adapting to the automobile age, the town’s basic layout has not been altered. The beauty of the present landscape comes from that early agricultural Charlotte which Town Clerk Higbee so lovingly described. Early settlers found a climate and soils well suited for their needs and the town was quickly preeminent in horticulture and farming The powers of Ceres, the Roman goddess of Agriculture standing atop the State Capitol in Montpelier, surely reach Charlotte where land riches are way above average. Fifty percent of the town is covered by prime agricultural soils. Compare this with an average of twenty percent for all of Vermont’s towns. The m soils have been evaluated for texture, color, structure, and mineral materials. m Favorable growing factors include wide spread drainage, and the all-important 0 temperature moderating influence of the Lake. Charlotte with 25 working farms has more agricultural enterprises than most of the towns in Chittenden County. Dairying accounts for seventeen of these with the remainder producing widely 0 known varieties of berries, vegetables and flowers.. A highly visible barn on the west side of Route 7 close to the crest of the hill area holds the history of agriculture in its walls. The components were made in many ways and in different places, reassembled and moved many 0 times. Much of the integrity of the barn and its surroundings come from Henry Thorp’s skills in acquiring land just before the Civil War. He consolidated four properties and created a 260 acre farm which remained intact for the next 120 m years. Continuity in ownership created the present landscape. 0 The north section is an English style hay barn built in the 1790’s, vali- 0 dated by the discovery in the sheathing of hand-wrought nails made in the 1780’s. It has drive-through doors of great proportion. Early farming had many Q 1999 Champlain Valley Telecorn Shelbume (I) rn Ferrisburg 0 CHARLOTTE. VERMONT I) Beers Map, 1869. m aspects and the barn met diverse needs for the storage of grain, corn, spring wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, potatoes, peas and beans. It also housed farm implements. The south section was added when the sheep craze swept over the Champlajn Valley, built in Quaker style, probably between 1830 and 1850. Child’s Gazeteer lists Henry Thorp as “a breeder of fine blood Atwood .r Merino sheep’ and notes his residence as ‘2 miles from depot.” The sheep fever was intense. Even Garden Island in Converse Bay was used to support a flock of 300 sheep. 0 Preservationists have not determined just when the north and south sections of the barn werejoined; scribe rule markings (1 800) in the northern section and square rule markings (I 860) in southern bays guided builders in the a original construction. Structural features include high transom windows and a loft ladder supported by two full posts. The west portion of the barn was built when sheep raising collapsed under competition from ranches out West. The owner turned to dairying to save the m family farm. Beginning about 1900, barns and landscapes all over the state changed to accommodate the black and white cows that have become a logo for Vermont. With the need to house a herd, sanitation practices were crucial. The addition on the west side of the barn had a concrete floor under the 57 stan- 0 1999 Champlain Valley Telecom 5 m The Thorpe barn in the Charlotte Park and Wildlife Refuge. Artist Jennie Cole chions that held the cows almost immobile. To make winter less of an ordeal, the owners installed a very deep well in the barn, close to the cows and out of the weather. The last of the Thorp owners sold this dairy operation to Auguste Roberts in 19 16; his family kept the whole thing together until 1965. The original dairy herd was small but almost fifty years later it had grown to 100 head of milk cows. Small, too, were the batches of cheese, butter and cream made for family use. Ice cream making was the king of treats but only a sideline.
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